Rachel Brand says it’s time to ‘make it OK for men to be the one to take the kid to the doctor’
As retail companies prepare for the long-delayed return to office at corporate headquarters across the country, Walmart Inc. Executive Vice President for Global Governance, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary Rachel Brand says executives need to be supportive of work-life balance — especially for working parents.
After two years of meeting virtually rather than getting on a plane, and realizing work can be done from anywhere, “people’s expectations are changing,” said Brand, the keynote speaker at NRF’s Retail Law Summit in February. Many harried parents and other employees won’t tolerate being in the office just for the sake of being in the office.
“Before COVID-19, there were lots of family meltdowns in my household,” Brand said, recalling days when her litigator husband was out of town and she was trying to make it to a high-level, early-morning meeting. “We have no babysitter, someone’s got to get the kids to the bus, and it’s a total you-know-what. Now I know I could just call in to that meeting if that happened. It would be OK for me to just call in,” she said.
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